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nosianu
1y ago
Yes, and??? How is that relevant? We were talking about money, explicitly. Not the resources. When the economy still has room, i.e. people are available to do more, then any missing resources can be obtained by sooner or later by employing
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1y ago
I don't doubt that the current specific products and how you use them will endure. This is the very first type of something truly better, and there still is a very long way to go. Let's see what we will have twenty years from now,
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1y ago
I see my instructions for the LLM still as code. Just in human language and not a particular programming language. I still have to specify the algorithm, and I still have to be specific - the more fuzzy my instructions the more likely it is
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1y ago
That money will still flow elsewhere.
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1y ago
> since investor money is spent exactly once So I'm nitpicking here, but this seems to me to be an important nitpick: This is not true because money circulates. The distinction is, one should not stop looking at only the first lev
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1y ago
There must be more than that, another explanation, if they are slow. Ten year old CPUs were plenty fast already, far more than enough even, to power an NAS device. My Windows 11 often takes many seconds to start some application (Sigil, Exc
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1y ago
The German magazine "Spiegel" has a (paywalled) career-info article on the homepage right now about a lawyer specializing in getting rid of unwanted employees. https://www.spiegel.de/karriere/entlassungen-wie-
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1y ago
Understandable. Many many years ago I sat in front of a commercial code base for the very first time, a well-known large database company, and my first despair-level was reached quickly when I saw that everybody who ever submitted a patch s
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1y ago
Yes, they chose their genes and the structure of their brain after all, how irresponsible of them! /s In general, something that happens at scale and consistently is not an individual problem. You have whole armies of very well funded
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1y ago
Uhm... see my first sentence? I'm aware, and I said so. Obviously I pointed to a conflict (of my interests), that's why I said I'm torn. If I want the second (less vandalism) I'll have to give up at least some of the fir
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1y ago
I'm deeply skeptical of surveillance and convinced it will be misused, more and more over time as all sides get used to it and the complaints become less, or less fundamental and more against something specific while not questioning
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1y ago
Funny thing is, the last few times some guy attacked people, a few days later we could read or hear in the news updates that that person had already been known to be violent, and quite a few times we also learned that they were supposed to
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1y ago
That may be true for things you experienced yourself, but not for what you heard about others elsewhere. From researcher team leads to company owners, the names communicated and remembered are those at the top (even if the original communic
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1y ago
The question the parent commenter raises is more related to those trainings , which are 100% artificial and typical corporate checkbox ticking on the HR TODO list. Nobody disputed the value of giving an example by living and acting in cert
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1y ago
On the other hand, if it helps to let go - one of THE most important abilities a brain has - than that is a big potential benefit. A long time ago but in a place not so far away, as a teenager with some love drama, I once was completely c
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This may be a problem of scale. biochem is a much wider field, and I guess, depending on what devices exactly you mean, a lot of it is usable in other bio fields (like https://www.faulhaber.com/en/markets/laborator
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1y ago
That fact is pretty useless to draw any useful conclusions from with one random not so great example. Yes, it's an experiment and we got a result. And now what? If I want reliable work results I would still go with the strategy of bein
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1y ago
> the major breakthrough would have to be brain-computer interfaces so the agent can literally read the user's mind. And even that would not be enough. In reality, it would have to put the user to sleep and go through various drea
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1y ago
> We're all greedy. We all want to get the most for our money, time and effort. We are? For example, I never file taxes. I'm certain I could get quite a bit back. I am far from rich, I earn medium pay in Germany - medium over
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You are attempting to shift the goalpost after I countered your wrong assertion directly. You wrote a short and very specific post, it is still there. It does not matter that you quoted the ICE, not these days with all the lies, and since t
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1y ago
Protection money. Pay or we will withdraw our military support.
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That is wrong. Summary: https://www.hooyou.com/b1-visa/b1-activities.html I myself once worked for a large German company at a large US software company, porting code to my company's platform. After a few flights
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> and who knows what it will look like if we have some kind of civil war out of this. I don't understand mentions of "civil war" in the public lately (there's even a Hollywood movie about it). There is only one part
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Do you have any proof or even just actual argument whatsoever that the very specific thread I linked to has any such alleged problems? Did you actually even bother to read the many comments there? Unlike your single-phrase blanket stateme
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It is not about that one commenter, I would not have posted it for a single anecdote. I read through most of the comments. While there are voices like yours, the many people having similar things to say as the OP, and what exactly they say,
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I just read a thread earlier today in the medical-professionals /r/medicine group of reddit that had a lot of participation from medical people: "My rural patients are so much more insufferable than my urban ones" https
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> If they submit multiple applications, it does not up chances for that candidate in any way. I believe the parent commenter's argument is that they instead play the game with multiple people. The increased chance is not per perso
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> Do you want government to have it, or everyone to have it? That is a strange dichotomy, "government vs everyone". You miss the much more important large private organizations. Government can at least be held accountable, if
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I'm not complaining but explaining, answering the question.
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1y ago
At the early stages memorization is essential for some subjects. I still benefit greatly - like many - from very early having to memorize the complete lower multiplication table (12x14, 15x15 and all that, the 20-square). I actually need th
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